Indescribable

“Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end.”
Tao Te Ching Chapter 14

According to the book of Tao Te Ching, the great Tao is like air. It’s not describable as in shape, color or size. Why is this? It is probably because by giving it a specific description one will limit the possibility of that existence. I don’t know specifically what kind of limits. But I do have a feeling that its enigmatic form is what makes Tao so great.

Another thing I wondered off when reading this line from Tao Te Ching is an axiom from a Japanese cartoon called, “Baccano!” This character says,

“Be freed from the illusion.
Throw away that illusion, that tells you there is a beginning and an ending in a story.
There is no beginning in a story. Neither an end.”

From Baccano! OVA episode 3

This story actually didn’t have a firm ending neither a beginning. It began suddenly and ended in the middle of everything. There were no main characters. Everyone was the main and the sub characters. It is based on this novel about people who obtained eternity of life. Bunch of random people meet and say farewells. Just like how life goes. Each of them dealing with “eternity” in their own ways.